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PortalPortal Por"tal, n. [OF. portal, F. portail, LL. portale, fr.
L. porta a gate. See Port a gate.]
1. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit,
especially one that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone.
--Milton.
From out the fiery portal of the east. --Shak.
2. (Arch.)
(a) The lesser gate, where there are two of different
dimensions.
(b) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated
from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming
a short passage to another apartment.
(c) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent
writers for the whole architectural composition which
surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a
church.
3. (Bridge Building) The space, at one end, between opposite
trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
4. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.]
Portal bracing (Bridge Building), a combination of struts
and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at
a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper
parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge. Portal
Portal Por"tal, a. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the
liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the
porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an
artery.
Note: Portal is applied to other veins which break up into
capillaries; as, the renal portal veins in the frog.
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